Afterplace

"Afterplace offers a nuanced and powerful rethinking of infrastructure not as fully functional, nor as failing/failed or museumified ruin, but as suspended--inhabited, cared for, and contested, and kept alive by those who refuse to let it be forgotten."--Katie Kilroy-Marac, author of An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic

"In this engaging and poetic ethnography, Charline Kopf offers a major rethinking of postcolonial infrastructure through the analytic of the afterplace, and shows how sites of apparent obsolescence remain vital arenas of labor and social life. By foregrounding 'temporal labor, ' the book makes a powerful contribution that challenges linear notions of work and political action."--Julie Kleinman, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Fordham University

"With eloquent prose and clear writing, Charline Kopf tells a devastating story of a dream deferred and the efforts to maintain dwindling future possibilities that sustain it."--Bettina Ng'weno, author of No Place Like Home in a New City: Anti-Urbanism and Life in Nairobi